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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [122r] (248/366)
The record is made up of 1 volume (179 folios). It was created in 1924. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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233
CHAPTER VI il.
COMMTOI CATIONS.
Considering the population of ’Arabistan, which comprises Gsnera •
merely gricultural and pastoral tribes having no use for any
method of communication except tracks suitable for camel and
donkey caravans and canals that are deep enough iO£ mahailahs,
communication i exceptionally good and for this the country
if indebted first to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company a d secondly
to British occupation during the war.
As regards roads, motor traffic can be driven in the dry season
to all the more important places of the province with the excep
tion of the south-east districts, where hov/ever military trans
port is less likely to be required. After rain roads are always
impassable for motor traffic for three or four days and sometimes
for a longer period.
River communication is disappointing with the number of
large rivers in the province, the Karim being the only navigable
river and that being so blocked at Ahwaz that t is necessary to
tranship here.
Of telegraphic and telephonic communication the Persian
Government runs telegn ph wires to the more important places,
whilst the Anglo-Persian Oil Company have telephones at all
their stations, which exist between Muhammarah and' Dar-i-
Xhazinah via Ahwaz with many smaller intermediate stations to
the oil fields, betwe n uhammarah and Abadan and between
Ahwaz and Kandaq on the roan to Ram Hormuz. II oil is
discovered at Dehluran additional telephonic communication
will be made from there (o Ahwaz, probably pas ing through
Dizful. With these lines in existence it would be no difficult
matter for the Military authorities., if the occasion arose, to
construct other lines.
o;
The recognised route from the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
to 5 Arabist an is ccnimimlcation
along the Shatt-al-’Arab as far as Muhammarah, where large with the sea.
steamers anchor in mid-stream and discharge cargo into lighters
or barges. Half a dozen of these are generally available at
Muhammarah, and more could be brought down from Basrah,
if required. Only ships drawing 20 ft.-or less o n ordinarily
cross the bar at the mouth of the Shatt-al-’Arab and enter the
river. The British India Steam Company’s Beats can carry
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Confidential military report on Arabistan [Khūzestān] compiled by Air Headquarters, Iraq, and printed by the Government of India Press, 1924.
The report contains nine chapters (numbered I-IX) and seven appendices (A-G) as follows:
- chapter I – history (general, ancient, modern, political attitude);
- II – geography (boundaries, area, general description, altitude, mountains, rivers and fords, towns and villages, tracts of land, islands, fortified places, political divisions);
- III – climate (general, temperature, winds, rainfall, mirages, general medical and sanitary conditions, principal diseases, conditions affecting aviation and military operations);
- IV – economic resources (general, labour, agriculture, livestock, manufacture, power, commerce, customs, banking, revenue, tables of imports and exports);
- V – ethnography (general, population, races, religions, languages);
- VI – tribes (general, armed forces, tribes in relation to possible centres of disturbance, political attitudes, military considerations, tribal action, punitive measures, recapitulation, lists of tribes);
- VII – personalities;
- VIII – communications (general, communications by sea, inland waterways, railways, telegraphs and telephones, post, aerodromes and possible aerodromes, wireless and visual communication, principal routes by land, sea and river);
- IX – administration (general, government establishments, northern province, southern province);
- appendix A – bibliographical notes;
- B – weights and measures, coinage and time;
- C – glossary of topographical terms;
- D – Karun river [Rūd-e Kārūn] regulations;
- E – concession granted to the “Nasiri Company”;
- F – customs schedule;
- G – Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
The volume contains a single map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 180).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (179 folios)
- Arrangement
A contents list (ff 4-5) and index (ff 171-177) reference the report’s original pagination system.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 181; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:163v, 168r:168v, 171r:179v, back-i
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